Arlington High Team Receives Equipment Grant
The Arlington High football team was recently awarded eight new helmets, worth $4,000.
Arlington running back Dan Colombo carries the ball downfield during a game against Wilmington last season.
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The Arlington High football team recently received a grant from USA Football for eight new Revolution Speed Helmets, according to Spy Ponders coach John Dubzinski.
Dubzinski, who wrote the grant application, said this is the second straight year his team has received the grant. It saves the town $4,000, he said.
“With concussions and player safety the big topic nowadays,” he said, “this grant will be a home run for our program.”
Last season, in Dubzinski’s first year as coach, the Spy Ponders went 3-8. Here’s what they’ll be facing in 2012.
Paul
1:27 pm on Monday, August 20, 2012
Coach Burns and coach Behrens would be very pleased. Now, if we can please ask the Town not to waste the savings since private people paid the freight AND if the whiny liberals dont start protesting the unfairness because it is a boys sport . We cheer today the Red and Grey!!!
robert bartholomew
7:18 am on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Coach Ike Bevins
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5:35 pm on Monday, August 20, 2012
What the school committee lose some more dough? This is ridiculous what our kids have to do to play competitively!
Tim
11:00 pm on Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Granny Hey i give these kids credit . They Are playing football and not sitting a home playing computer games.. lets work and get these kids some good Helmets.....
robert bartholomew
7:26 am on Thursday, August 23, 2012
Football helmets should be supplied, as they are in all other towns, by the Athletic Dept. They are tested for safety and discarded if they do not pass the test or have expired due to age. Granny, what is the cost of a football helmet?
Stephen H
8:49 am on Thursday, August 23, 2012
Granny,
Children pay $500 to play football at AHS, the highest fee for a public high school sport in Massachusetts, and one of the highest in the country, except for the more than $700 children pay for AHS hockey.
This $500 covers all coaching stipends, the referees for the games, transportation, the cell phone for the athletic director, balls AND safety equipment including helmets and pads.
The students and their parents already pay for proper football helmets.
The students and their parents already pay for proper football helmets.
Your plan, making parents directly pay for helmets while also paying these outrageous fees, requires each parent to have the financial incentive and ability to properly buy the correct safety equipment and assumes that each parent has the knowledge to properly size, fit and maintain safety equipment.
Concussions in youth sports are a public safety issue. Proper safety equipment, retraining of coaches and increased safety awareness is the responsibility of every organization that provides these opportunities. That is the law.
BD
11:17 pm on Thursday, August 23, 2012
Why is it that taxpayers and not parents should pay for the entertainment of their kids? Obviously, parents should pay every single dime it costs to have THEIR kids enrolled in football, hockey, theater or whatever else they choose to entertain their kids with.
Stephen H
7:02 am on Friday, August 24, 2012
Some say that high school athletic programs are not a fundamental part of an education; they are wrong. In 1993, the Massachusetts legislature, clearly showing their intent, enacted guidelines placing athletics in the foundation budget; relevant section copied below.
“Foundation athletic expenses”, the amount allotted within a district’s foundation budget for athletic expenses in any fiscal year. The foundation athletic expenses shall be the sum of:
(a) fifty dollars multiplied by the foundation junior high/middle school enrollment; plus
(b) two hundred dollars multiplied by the sum of the foundation high school enrollment and the foundation vocational enrollment.
In Arlington, there are 1068 enrolled in the Middle School and 1167 at the High School. 1068*50 + 1167*200 = $286,600 was the minimum recommended amount of monies allocated for athletics seventeen years ago. Adjusting for growth in the foundation budget, let’s assume 2.5% per year, gives a current, recommended, foundation budget for athletics at $435K.
The foundation budget, while protected by statute, does not require that school districts allocate as recommended. However, the intent of the Legislature from 17 years ago, when education financing was last overhauled and reformed, makes it clear. Athletics is an integral part, a foundation, of a Free and Appropriate Public Education.
Tim
9:41 am on Thursday, August 23, 2012
Arlington should be ashamed of themselves . Over paid managers , take home cars and trucks for everyone . Big override and yet we are making these kids to pay to play .... I got an idea lets take away all take home cars and trucks .. We can use the money for new helmets ....
robert bartholomew
8:18 pm on Saturday, August 25, 2012
Tim, You are right on target!! Not to mention the AHS Athletes are charged/ by the Arlington Recreation Dept/ Public works Dept.Town of Arlington, a $6.00 per participant fee to use The Town Field Spaces including W.A. Pierce Field.Their Home Field Space!!!! Also all youth programs are charged $8.00 per participant to use all the field spaces in Arlington. I would like to see a spreadsheet as to where this money is spent. To pay to play on your hometown fields is a joke. I could go on and on. Where has this money gone????
Tim
11:31 am on Thursday, August 23, 2012
Illegal tax Granny ? Please explain ..
robert bartholomew
8:05 pm on Thursday, August 23, 2012
Granny, come out from behind your "name" and step up to the plate and identify yourself!!!!! Find another Public School System that has the outrageous user fees/ the highest in the state/ and the lowest coaching salaries as
well as the lowest teaching salaries/3, 0% raises since the early 80's, in the commenwealth! The Town of Arlington has a cash reserve, due to an override/ and all Town Employees Joining The GIC Health Care Program/ Where have those monies been spent/ gone /a spreadsheet must be produced. It is all about accountability!! From the Top .